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Harvard's Rick Melvoin took first in the 440 over Yale's Bob Inmann. Melvoin ran the distance in 50.0, while Inmann covered it in 50.4. Crimson Mercurian John Keating took third...
...Mars. Solidly researched, the show presents expert testimony from Dr. Wernher Von Braun, chief of the U.S. Army's rocket program, and other scientists. No less expert is the comic ingenuity lavished on illustrating man's fanciful speculation about life on other planets-a menagerie of Mercurian thing-amajigs and Saturnian whatchamacallits that goes as far out of this world as anything dreamed up by C. S. Lewis...
Massachusetts Hall was the centre of political ferment in Revolutionary War times. The General Court of Massachusetts sat there more than once. The students organized in 1769 a forerunner of the modern S. A. T. C.. It was called the Marti-Mercurian Band. It drilled in dashing uniforms, consisting of blue coats, faced with white; rankeen breeches, white stockings, to boots, and cocked hats...
Harvard has seen many parades in her long life. The Marti-Mercurian Band, which was organized toward the end of the last century, and its successors, the Harvard Washington Corps, which will be referred to later, the old Engine Company and the various Navy Clubs, which existed early in this century, all had their share in exhibitions and excursions. But the greatest parade of all was that held to celebrate the 240th anniversary of the College. In connection with the student parade, on Wednesday next, an account of this last parade may be interesting. It was held Monday evening, November...
...thirty years after its foundation, it was called the Speaking Club of 1770. Unlike most societies which are established for this purpose, its existence was not imperilled by the large number of its rivals, but on the contrary it "swallowed up" numerous societies of smaller growth. In 1773, the Mercurian Club of 1771 was merged into the Speaking Club. At this time the proceedings of the club were strictly secret...